Gilded Age I

Chicken or Egg

100

Battle of Little Bighorn

or Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

200

McKinley Tariff

or

Homestead/ Morrill Act

Homestead/ Morrill Act (1862)

300

Reconstruction officially ends

or

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (1869)

400

Sherman Antitrust Act 

or

Oklahoma Land Giveaway

Oklahoma Land Giveaway (1889)

500

Chinese Exclusion Act

or

Plessy v. Ferguson

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Chicken or Egg

100

Pullman Strike

or

Ghost Dance Movement/ Wounded Knee

Ghost Dance Movement/ Wounded Knee (DEC 1890)

200

McKinley Tariff

or

Pullman Strikes

McKinley Tariff (OCT 1890)

300

Chinese Exclusion Act

or

Reconstruction officially ends

Reconstruction officially ends (1877)

400

Sherman Antitrust Act

or

Ghost Dance Movement

Sherman Antitrust Act (JUL 1890)

Ghosted Dance (DEC 1890)

500

Oklahoma Land Giveaway

or

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Oklahoma Land Giveaway (1889)

Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)

El Jefe

100

First Democrat President after the Civil War and First non-consecutive term President.

Grover Cleveland

200

Enacted Sherman Antitrust Act

Benjamin Harrison

300

Supported Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Chester Arthur

400

Reconstruction leader associated with scandal

Ulysses S. Grant

500

Compromise gave him office and ended Reconstruction

Rutherford B. Hayes

El Jefe II

100

Supported civil service reform prior to assassination.

James A. Garfield

200

Campaigned from his front porch with backing from the Titans of Industry.

William McKinley

300

Titan of Oil

John D. Rockefeller

400

Titan of Steel

Andrew Carnegie

500

Titan of Finance

J.P. Morgan

Big Ideas

100

Andrew Carnegie’s idea that the wealthy should use their wealth to help others. “The man who dies rich thus dies disgraced.”

Gospel of Wealth

200

Idea that opposed social welfare, promoted concentration of wealth to the ”deserving,” and encouraged eugenics. 

Social Darwinism

300

How did the Dawes Act impact Native America culture?

Promoted cultural assimilation of the Indians through education and land redistribution. 

400

What led to the removal of federal troops from the South?

The Compromise of 1877

500

Why did labor unions struggle during the Gilded Age?

Courts often sided with business owners.